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Welcome to Shoot Up!

Shoot Up or Put Up is among one of the top 250 diabetes blogs and forums in the United Kingdom.

Written by two professional diabetics, Tim & Alison, the soaraway Shoot Up charts the slings and arrows of the pancreatically challenged hordes.

Polls

How do you react when people ask about your diabetes?

Shrug and say "it's nothing"

Deny that you have diabetes

Dare them, just dare them, to say anything inacurate about diabetes

Burst our crying at the unfairness of having an incurable chronic condition

Get out PowerPoint presentation and start to lecture on differences between T1 & T2